The Red Rising Trilogy Series Collection #1-3
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, BUZZFEED, GOODREADS AND SHELF AWARENESS Pierce Brown's heart-pounding debut is the first book in a spectacular series that combines the drama of Game of Thrones with the epic scope of Star Wars. ********** 'Pierce Brown's empire-crushing debut is a sprawling vision . . . Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow' - Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Pandemic '[A] top-notch debut novel . . . Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field' - USA Today ********** Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars, generations of people who spend their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that, one day, people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left. Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down at Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda.
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6 primary books#1-3 in Red Rising Saga
Red Rising Saga is a 6-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Pierce Brown.
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What if Dune, Game of Thrones, Divergent and Hunger Games had a baby and he was a fan of Heavy Metal? Well, that kid would be Red Rising. The incredible thing about it is that it transcends this definition, because it is the best Young Adult I have ever read. Let's clear up what it could give to passionates.
Red Rising is a Pierce Brown trilogy which mixes in a splendid way the epic space operas with the Roman Empire culture, adding lots of different inspirations in the middle. One of my main struggles with the YA category of books are the excesses in romanticism, with lack of coherence and realism and the most beautiful thing about Red Rising is how it deals with love inserting it inside the story, as a matter of Honor but also of feelings and sensations, never trivializing it. Since this marvelous idea, what perfectly works inside Red Rising is the construction of the legend of Darrow of Lykos, from the grounds of Marth to an epic trial of saving its similars. Because inside Red Rising' society the hierarchy of humans has changed completely, with the rise of the Golds as a role of prestige. Under them, lots of other people, divided by Colors, see the head of this organization as Gods in the Solar System, now completely colonized. The Reds, specialized in the risky mining of Mars, represents in a certain way the highest force among men, for the events they need to overcome, and for this reason they are maintained in a state of ignorance. As soon as one of them discovers the truth, the rules of the entire world start to fall apart.
Red Rising is a trilogy of powerful strength for the evolution given to its characters and its worldbuilding. Forcing the plot twists to make enormous changements, Pierce Brown is capable of increasing the bar at every sequel of his original story, giving it always a larger sight. The first book focuses on Mars, and on survival in terrible lands and situations, giving us the sense of cruelty of a world in which even a brother or sister can become the target for a climb through success. The second publication instead makes an expansion to the whole system, in which everything it's around households, trying to conquer power while fighting the laws of a dying world. The third iteration, instead, follows an incredible pacifist path all around the universe, struggling with the nonsense of the war and on the force given by friends and dear people in the moments needed. All these three different souls perfectly embrace the same matrix, the one of the exaggerations of modern elegance instead of the popular grounds. Because Red Rising is a story pivoted around pop culture, with all the quotes and inner references which elevates the events of Darrow onto the level of the epic actual productions. Red Rising shows the beautiful creativity of humankind, trying to convince us that we are also exceptional in giving life to new things instead of only destroying and creating disparities.
FINAL VERDICT: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
